Excerpt from Great Astronomers

IT has been my object in these pages to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings, and I have endeavoured to indicate as clearly as circumstances would permit the main features of the discoveries by which he has become known.

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